About the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement

The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement is a political movement dedicated to
freeing people from bondage and building resistance in the United States. We
situate our political movement in the context of the abolitionist struggle
against slavery and continue in the tradition, from Nat Turner to the Black
Liberation Movement. We believe the Civil War was never resolved and the system
of slavery transitioned into the prison industrial complex. Our struggle today
must begin from this starting point. Lastly, as revolutionary anarchists, the
abolitionist struggle must be extended to the state and capitalism, the
perpetrators of oppression. The revolutionary movement in the US today is at a
cross roads, as fascist movements are expanding, and the state becomes
increasingly authoritarian. The Rojava Revolution, in northern Syria, provides
us with a model for revolution today with its foundation in communal and
council based political organization and militant defense.

Short Term Goal: The Underground Railroad

We will create networks for those facing detention, incarceration, deportation,
or white supremacist violence to escape and live with dignity. We invite
revolutionaries to help build a contemporary underground railroad, outside the
reach of the state. Revolutionaries, social centers, and antifa groups that are
already active can help build greater infrastructure of resistance to support
those fleeing the state. From this foundation, we set the political framework
for the next stages.

Long Term Goal: Building the Abolitionist Project

For the Abolitionist project to be successful we must eventually transition
from resistance to a revolutionary situation. Relationships and groups built
through the underground railroad have the potential to become the foundation
for organized defense groups, local councils, and regional/national councils.

We invite comrades to coordinate our activities regionally, and nationally as
part of an Abolitionist Council.

Political Foundation

Self-Defense

Defense of oppressed people and of our political projects is paramount. We
propose developing and tying defense teams to localities and collectives that
are based on abolitionist practices.

The Neighborhood Council

As the Underground Railroad network grows outside the jurisdiction of the
state and reactionary forces, it is built through non-hierarchical
relationships of trust. Collectives and councils developed according to needs,
issues, and political motivation involve people in neighborhood self-governance.

Conflict Resolution and Revolutionary Justice

Forms of conflict resolution are essential for developing revolutionary
relationships. Social cohesion, rather than punishment, must be the foundation.
Abolitionist political growth seeks to destroy the prison, yet those oppressing
others must be combated.

Abolition of Gender

The same forces that put people in bondage also utilize gender roles as a
source of domination. Overcoming imprisonment and liberating humanity from
captivity must happen simultaneously with the abolition of gender constraints.

Expropriation and the Cooperative Economy

To carve out an autonomous territory, or to begin the revolutionary process,
goods, land, and tools must be expropriated, or taken away from those who
withhold them. We are striving towards a situation where necessities cannot be
taken away from those who need them, but instead are shared with those who
lack them.